Where a university teaching assistant can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a university teaching assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
University teaching assistants are graduate students or recent graduates employed on a temporary contract at a university or a college for teaching-related responsibilities. They assist the professor, lecturer or teacher of the specific course they are in charge of in the preparation of lectures and of exams, grading papers and exams and leading review and feedback sessions for the students.
Also known as higher education teaching assistant, teaching assistant, TA, teaching assistant in universities, teaching assistant in higher education, university teaching aide, graduate teaching assistant.
Professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: special educational needs itinerant teacher, 39%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A university teaching assistant needs 11 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- supervise practical courses communication, collaboration and creativity
- provide assistance to lecturer communication, collaboration and creativity
- university procedures business, administration and law
- assessment processes education
- prepare lesson content communication, collaboration and creativity
- provide lesson materials communication, collaboration and creativity
- assist students in their learning communication, collaboration and creativity
- curriculum objectives education
- assess students management skills
- guarantee students' safety assisting and caring
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a university teaching assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- assistant lecturer 81% covered · difficulty 19.3
- further education teacher 65% covered · difficulty 34.6
- language school teacher 63% covered · difficulty 36.3
- adult literacy teacher 59% covered · difficulty 39.7
- first aid instructor 51% covered · difficulty 46.6
- flight instructor 51% covered · difficulty 46.6
- occupational railway instructor 51% covered · difficulty 46.6
- photography teacher 51% covered · difficulty 46.6
- special educational needs itinerant teacher 51% covered · difficulty 46.8
- tutor 48% covered · difficulty 49.8
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University teaching assistant is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a university teaching assistant’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.